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Stephen Hawking's final book

Hawking's final book offers brief answers to big questions

Hawking says humans have no option but to leave Earth, risking being "annihilated" if they do not.

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Three Indian students among 15 finalists in global science challenge

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Climate change causing sea snail shells to dissolve: study

PTI “Increasing carbon dioxide levels cause seawater to become corrosive to shellfish.”

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‘Need to preserve Walruses as ice melts’

AP U.S. court to hear a lawsuit challenging the govternment’s decision not to list them as threatened

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The compatibility and ability of the scaffold to regenerate cartilage and bone was tested in rabbits, say Biman Mandal (left) and Yogendra Pratap Singh.

IIT Guwahati fabricates superior scaffold for cartilage repair

R. Prasad The silk scaffold has seamless junction between the cartilage and bone portions

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in 2009 announced that it had sequenced the genome of an Indian.

Major mission to sequence genes of Indians planned

Jacob Koshy A group of Indian scientists and companies are involved with a 100k GenomeAsia project, led out of the National Technological University (NTU), Singapore, to sequence the whole genomes of 100k Asians, including 50,000 Indians.

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Hawking’s final paper on blackholes released

PTI Stephen Hawking’s final scientific paper — which was completed days before the British physicist’s death — has been written and posted online by his colleagues at Cambridge and Harvard universities.The paper named Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair, tackles with what happens to information when it falls into a blackhole, a problem that theoretical physicists refer to as ‘the information paradox’, said researchers from Cambridge University in the U.K. It was completed in the days before Hawking’s

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Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter.

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Climate change causing sea snail shells to dissolve: study

Hawking's final book offers brief answers to big questions

Three Indian students among 15 finalists in global science challenge

‘Need to preserve Walruses as ice melts’

Blue roses may soon be grown in gardens

Demystifying Science — October 14, 2018

Lessons from the Philippines

In the Philippines, we were able to quintuple government spending on health by financing it through sin taxes for tobacco and alcohol.

Human–leopard conflict in the Himalaya

‘High-risk’ zones need special conservation attention

Glitch puts NASA’s Chandra telescope in ‘safe’ mode

Critical hardware swapped to back-up units, solar panels to gather maximum sunlight

Larger mountain moths

Researchers from three universities have measured more than 19,000 tropical moths from 1,100 species to find out whether their size varies with

IIT Guwahati fabricates superior scaffold for cartilage repair

The silk scaffold has seamless junction between the cartilage and bone portions

‘Unethical to withhold bedaquiline while waiting for Phase III results’

Drug safety results of over 5,000 patients showed significant reductions in patient mortality while no new safety signals have emerged

Major mission to sequence genes of Indians planned

A group of Indian scientists and companies are involved with a 100k GenomeAsia project, led out of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, to sequence the whole genomes of 100k Asians, including 50,000 Indians.

Hawking’s final paper on blackholes released

Stephen Hawking’s final scientific paper — which was completed days before the British physicist’s death — has been written and posted online by his

‘Ancient pigment can boost energy efficiency’

Egyptian blue was routinely used

The Hindu Science Quiz: Of Sai Baba on Moon and Alice in wonderland

Did Sai Baba appear on the Moon? What does Alice in wonderland syndrome mean? For answers, and more interesting questions on tricky appearances, take this quiz.

Nobel Economics Prize awarded to William D. Nordhaus, Paul M. Romer

The economists have been given the prize for “integrating innovation and climate with economic growth.”

NASA probe to fly by most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft

The spacecraft is just 112 million kilometres from Ultima, closing in at 51,911 km/h.

Tiny spheres can trap water pollutant

They can destroy BPA, a synthetic chemical commonly used to coat insides of food cans.

‘Optimists make poor business decisions’

Study explores prospects of success

Picking out silent ghosts in the deep

Diver-activists are removing abandoned or lost fishing nets that trap sea life

What are turbidity currents?

They are fast-moving currents that sweep down submarine canyons, carrying sand and mud into the deep sea. However, there is more to them than just

JNCASR restores memory in mice with Alzheimer’s

A small molecule attached to carbon nanospheres could cross the blood-brain barrier

Neurodegeneration to neuroregeneration: Exercise helps!

Can exercise itself be replaced and substituted with biochemical treatment, thereby supplying patients with ‘bottled exercise’?

Eastern Ghats face loss of forest cover, endemic plants

Forest cover shrunk from 43.4% to 27.5% in 95 years

Common ant pollinates rare wild jamun

This is interesting as ants are usually depicted as poor pollinators

Parker Solar Probe completes first Venus flyby: NASA

Parker Solar Probe was successfully launched on August 12

Centre’s boost to solar cooking

DST institutes awards for best designs

First moon outside our solar system discovered

The newly discovered exomoon and the planet it orbits are both gaseous

Snack on science: Of Riemann, Ramanujan and incompleteness

Fun facts or complex puzzles, science contains mysteries ranging from the minute to the magnificent. Taste science! Take this quiz!

Japan drops new robot on asteroid

The German-French observation device is part of a mission to find clues to the solar system’s origins

Watch: The work of this year’s Chemistry Nobel laureates

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 with one half to Frances H. Arnold and the other half jointly to

Indian astronaut may travel to International Space Station for training: Report

The flight should take place in 2022 before or after India’s independent manned space mission.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith, Sir Gregory Winter

They have been awarded the prize “for the directed evolution of enzymes” and ”for the phage display of peptides and antibodies.”

Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, Donna Strickland win Nobel Prize in Physics

The physicists have been awarded the prestigious prize for their work in the field of laser physics.

Scientists puzzled by ‘peculiar’ tsunami

Oceanic buoys, tide gauges failed to detect any unusual activity before the disaster

Of fruits and frugivores: How fruits colour themselves to attract animals

The colour of the fruit depends primarily on the visual capacity of the local seed dispersing animals

James P. Allison, Tasuku Honjo win Nobel Prize in Medicine for cancer research

The two immunologists have won the prize for their discovery of ‘immune checkpoint therapy,’ a cancer treatment.

An incomplete healing

Inadequate facilities for reconstructive surgery and limited staff are affecting cancer treatment in government hospitals

‘Dark microbial matter’ dominates the earth

“Dark microbial matter” — uncultured microbes whose characteristics have never been described — could be dominating nearly all the environments on

Mechanism of colistin resistance in Klebsiella bacteria unravelled

Colistin-resistant bacteria were found in 46% vegetable, meat and fish samples in Chennai

IISc team finds new approaches to kill TB bacteria

For the first time a protein that condenses the DNA of TB-causing bacteria in response to oxidative stress has been found

12 satellite-tagged vultures take wing from Nepal

Eight of them are captive-bred; the birds are also fitted with wing tags

The Hindu Science Quiz: Tooth tales

How well do you know the world around you? Take our quiz to find out!

Wetlands vanishing 3 times faster than forests: report

Focus on wetlands remain ‘dangerously undervalued’, says the Ramsar Convention

Watch: Robot caterpillar deliver drugs inside human body

Laboratory tests showed that the robot was capable of carrying a load 100 times heavier than itself

‘Biggest bird’ dispute put to rest

One species of elephant bird weighed about 860 kg: Study

Winners of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology 2018 announced

Dr Aditi Sen De is the only female winner this year

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